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Hi guys, welcome back to my channel I'm Maggie
Today we're going to talk about five things that you should do every single day to improve your spoken English.
These are all things that's helped me tremendously(极大的[trəˈmɛndəsli]) and I continue to do them every single day.
So I can't wait to share with you. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel, and turn on the post notification.
Let's get study with it.
First thing I recommend doing is definitely Mimicking（模仿) TV shows.
I have talked about this one extensively(广泛地) on my channel and I'll say it again today because it work.
But I'm definitely not saying that you should just do this randomly to any TV show.
You should probably pick something that's more conversational（对话方式的）and something that's more realistic(现实的).
So here are four show that I really recommend if you want to practice an American accent.
First, classic Friends, How I Met Your Mother
Next one is That 70s Show. That is really funny. I personally really like it and The Office.
These four shows are all very good resources to practice English with.
But the most important thing when it come to mimicking TV show is your method.
First step, you can read the script and record yourself befor you hear the actors say the words now.
where do you find the script?
There's a website. Most of the script you can find on this website.
I'll link it in the description box as well.
This step is so important because only if you know where you make the mistake, you can find how you can improve it.
For example this sentence, you could say how are the things at the library if you didn't know that "at"?
This word "at" is supposed to pronounce "at " the library.
You probably say how are things at the library?
So if you record yourself and then you hear the actors talk then you can find where you did wrong.
Do you see what I am saying?
A second two step is to hear the actors say and then record youself again.
Mimicking how the actors are saying it. It's a lot of fun.
I thinking you'll like it. Start trying it today.
second one is to read the newspaper.
You don't have to go out and buy a newspaper.
We all have apps on our phone and it's free. So it's so convenient.
It's in your hand literally in your hand.
The reason why I love to read the news to practice English.
It's because the style the writer use to write the news is so precise and most importantly you learn how to tell a story.
So you can practice your spoken English. You can learn a couple of sentence structure that you can use when it comes to reading English.
For exmaple, this one,
Under a bridge connecting the U.S. with Mexico, dozen of migrant（移民） familes crammed(塞满） into a makeshift camp（临时阵营）set up by Customs and Border Protection.
So, this sentence is basically three different sentences made into one.
The main one is "dozen of migrant（移民） familes crammed(塞满） into a makeshift camp（临时阵营）right?"
And then the second one is the camp. The camp's location is under a bridge connecting the U.S with Mexico
and set up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
So if in the furture something similar happens.
For example my cat had some snack. Where did he had the snack?
It was under my table, next to the computer, set out by me.
Under my table next to the computer my cat ate some snacks set out by me.
It's a little mini practice. You set for yourself, you don't just read the newspaper.
You learn the sentence struction and by replacing a complicated issue with something that really happens in your life.
you learn how to use that sentence structure so that to me is so important and so useful when it comes to improve
Not just your spoken English But you written English as well.
Step three is to write down new words you just learned maybe from the TV show you were watching or the news you were reading.
What's more important is to know how to use this word on your own
but something even when you did everything you could online.
you look it up online and you typed in using this word in a sentence.
you're still not sure if you're using this word, right? That's when you need to talk to a native speaker and ack them
How should I use the word? Am I using this right now?
You may ask where do I find someone that's available?
Kimbley（软件) can connect you with a native speaker anytime and anywhere you want.
and you can decide how long you want to talk to this teacher for
If you only have tours and you want to talk to them for about five minutes? You can do that.
Or you have a lot of materials or you want to take a formal lesson. that's available, too.
That's why I love this app so much
because there's no huge commitment that you have to make
speaking of which(说到哪）
let's go on Kimbley and talk to a teacher
Teacher: Hello, How are you?
Youtuber: Hi, John, good, How are you?
Teacher: I am good, thanks.
Youterbe: I have a question. I recently just learned this new word "preoccupied".
so I was wondering it, if I'm using it, right?
So if I want to say I was busy with something, I say I was preoccupied with it.
Teacher: exactly, and I think the certain different between busy and preoccupied...
I think "preoccupied" has a slightly more negative meaning.
busy mean have a lot of thing to do.
But preoccupied mean you can't focus correctly on one thing
because you are think about to many others.
Youtuber: So, for exmaple, someone called my name and I didn't hear them
because I was thinking about something else.
Maybe I could say I was preoccupied with others
Teacher: exactly, exactly.
Youtuber: Would that make people think I don't respect them if I said that.
Teacher: It just mean that There was a lot in your mind at that time. It will actually be I would say polite if you say that.
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You can get 15 minutes free the link and the referral(跳转）will be in the description box down below.
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Now, let move on to the final tip.
recap(概括) and record at the end of the day.
every day before you go to bed. you could sit there an just think in English. Pure English environment. Talk to yourself.
Today, I woke up about 8 o'clock, and I didn't want to get up at about 8 o'clock.
So I stayed on my phone for a little while
just described the whole day and according on your phone
now here come a important part is that next day write out everything that you record it yesterday
because if you write it out, you notica a lot of little mistakes
I know I make a lot of mistakes.
But it's impossible for me to know while I'm making it when I'm talking
but if I go back and I add subtitles on my video that's where I find a lot of my mistakes.
If you do that consistently every single day, your English is going to improve a lot.
So those are the five things that I think you should do every single day to practice spoken English
and It really works if you're really serious about this.
Even if you can just do one thing a day if you do it, right?
That's a win and It's going to work with time.
So I really hope this video helps you guys and if you want to check out cambly go to my description box.
Everything will be linked in there and thank you for watching.
I will see you in my next video, bye.